The worst thing that ever happened in software engineering was when Kirk asked Scotty how long something would take and Scotty said thirty minutes and Kirk said you’ve got five and Scotty got it done in five and impressionable children watched this and grew up to become managers.
– Isaac Freeman på Mastodon – link til indlæg
[…] a lot of people keep thinking that (this iteration of) “Artificial*” “Intelligence**” is a good idea…
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*human led, biased
**parroting
Via Mina på Mastodon – link til indlæg
“Now I’ve seen everything”
-person who clearly has not seen thousands of things
Via Low Quality Facts på Mastodon – link til indlæg
The subject of Sex is most difficult to deal with, not only on account of a certain prudery as well as a natural reticence on the subject, but doubtless also because the passion itself being so tremendously strong and occupying such a large part of human thought.
– Edward Carpenter: Sex-Love (1894)
Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a
law against it by that time.
– Fortune via Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Ever since playing with ChatGPT, I’ve become sensitized to the way false rationality sounds … there’s a particular vibe to what is basically coherent nonsense. And now I’ve started to notice when people do it too. I get this crawly ChatGPT feeling when somebody is obviously making up an “authoritative” answer to a question they know nothing about.
– @annaleen på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
I’m good at both kinds of programming: overcomplicating simple things and underestimating complex problems
– Liza Daly på Mastodon – Link til indlæg
Fake AI is generating a very real bullshit singularity where the amount of stupid accumulating exceeds my ability to make fun of it all.
– @seldo på Mastodon – link til indlæg
I have grudges old enough to run for Senate.
– @donaldball på Mastodon – link til indlæg
Look, if you think the fact that my Internet of Shit door-lock failed because the company that designed it made no plan to let me into my house if they went out of business would make me sympathetic to that company, you are out of your fucking mind.
– Cory Doctorow – Pluralistic: Learning from Silicon Valley Bank’s apologists (15 Mar 2023)